STICKY FINGERS

Jesse Tyler Ferguson Was Outed By His Stolen Gay Porn Collection

Jesse1 (1)Modern Family star Jesse Tyler Ferguson admitted to being a sticky-fingered teen this week, revealing that his penchant for stealing gay porn in his early teen years is what forced him to come out to his father.

Ferguson told the story of how he came out to his father the first time (and the three times after that) in an interview with Aisha Tyler this week on her podcast, Girl On Guy:

“I was caught stealing gay porn when I was 14, I always consider that my coming out. It was so humiliating. I had been stealing porn for a while, I had quite a little a collection.

I had been stealing porn and I had three magazines underneath my shirt. I guess the certain magazine that I picked up had a sensor in it, and I set off the alarm. I had to go back to the woman who asked me if I had anything in my backpack – she was giving me the benefit of the doubt.

I couldn’t be like, ‘some porn fell inside my pants’ – I lifted up my shirt and I had tears in my eyes. She took me to the back room and they brought my dad in, showed him the nature of the material that I was stealing. It was really, really humiliating.”

Go ahead and give your laptop a kiss, kids. And next time you complain about not having passwords for gay porn websites, remember the trailblazers before you — the young gay men who stole, hid, and lied in the name of gay porn.

Modern Family season 6 premiere Wednesday, September 24. Check it out Wednesdays at 9pm on ABC through fall.

h/t Gay Star News

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